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May 19, 2021 9:18 am Photo credit: Barbara Polichetti RI Commissioner of Education Angélica Infante-Green and Providence Superintendent Harrison Peters pose beside on of the 25 “Congratulations, Providence Seniors!” signs on RIPTA buses PROVIDENCE, RI (WLNE) – Rhode Island Department of Education Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green has asked Providence Public Schools Superintendent Harrison Peters to resign, according to a spokesperson. The commissioner’s request comes amid growing calls for his resignation from both state lawmakers and teachers unions over his vetting process and hiring of former Providence Schools Administrator Olayinka Alege. Court records show Alege was charged with simple assault and battery by the Warwick Police Department on April 20 after he gave a forced foot massage to a minor at a gym. The charges were filed on May 10. ....
PROVIDENCE Frank Montanaro s days at the State House have been numbered since former House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello was defeated at the polls in November. After months of rumors about where he might land, the former state representative from Cranston - and namesake son of a once-powerful labor leader - put in his last day at the State House on Friday. He left quietly, without fanfare in a state Capitol building still closed to the public. Montanaro headed business operations for Rhode Island s $46 million a year General Assembly. As the $167,948 a year executive director of the Joint Committee on Legislative Services (JCLS), he was in charge of hiring, firing and payroll for General Assembly employees and the legislature s army of contractors, from the ever-present construction crews to the redistricting whiz the lawmakers re-hired this year to crunch census numbers. ....
PROVIDENCE From behind the wheel of Bus 33 to East Providence that Saturday morning, Eldora “Ellie” Giblin saw cars stopped on the Henderson Bridge near a man who had one leg over the guardrail. No one was talking to him, she told Barbara Polichetti, public affairs director for the Rhode Island Public Transit Authoriity. “People just had their phones out and were taking pictures or video It broke my heart,” she said. She was nervous, she said, but she knew she had to do something. She stopped the bus. “I told my passengers not to worry and that I would be right back.” ....